Pausbacke

== German == === Alternative forms === (obsolete) Bausbacke === Etymology === The word is documented since the 16th century. It is a compound formed with the noun Backe and the stem of an obsolete verb whose (West Central German) Late Middle High German form was pūsen (see pusten) and whose Early New High German equivalent was pausen, bausen ‘to be blown-up; to billow, to distend; to swell; to be full of, to be bursting with’. In Early New High German these forms were merged with the verb bauschen whose Middle High German equivalents were biuschen and būschen ‘to beat, to knock’ which was influenced semantically by them (see bauschen). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈpaʊ̯sˌbakə] Hyphenation: Paus‧ba‧cke === Noun === Pausbacke f (genitive Pausbacke, plural Pausbacken) (colloquial, generally in the plural) chubby facial cheek with a red/reddish complexion (especially of a child) 1934, Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder: Roman. Volume 2: Der junge Joseph, S. Fischer, Berlin, p. 88 (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015):Translation:1944, Thomas Mann: Joseph and His Brothers. Volume 2: The Young Joseph, A. A. Knopf, New York, p. 62 (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015): ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== (regional) Pausback Pausbäckchen pausbäckig/(rarer) pausbackig === See also === Apfelbäckchen Birnennase Hamsterbacke, Hamsterbäckchen Kirschmund === References === === Further reading === “Pausbacke” in Duden online “Pausbacke”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “Pausbacke” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. “Pausbacke” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon